Miscellaneæ curiosæ [afterw.] Miscellanea curiosa: or, Entertainments for the ingenious of both sexes [ed. by T. Gent]. Jan./Mar. 1734-July/SeptThomas Gent 1734 |
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... Ground : For ftill we think an abfent Bleffing beft , Which cloys and is no Bleffing when poffefs'd : The fev'rifh Thirft of Life increafes ftill , We call for more , and never have our fill . Again we all of us were born to die , Why ...
... Ground : For ftill we think an abfent Bleffing beft , Which cloys and is no Bleffing when poffefs'd : The fev'rifh Thirft of Life increafes ftill , We call for more , and never have our fill . Again we all of us were born to die , Why ...
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... Ground In a ftreight Line , juft forty Yards are found , The higher Tree does fixty Yards contain , Thirty the lower , ( both ftand on a Plain :) Betwixt the Trees a Fountain plac'd must be But fo ; that when from it to th ' Apex of ...
... Ground In a ftreight Line , juft forty Yards are found , The higher Tree does fixty Yards contain , Thirty the lower , ( both ftand on a Plain :) Betwixt the Trees a Fountain plac'd must be But fo ; that when from it to th ' Apex of ...
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... Grounds believe , That MOSES the firft Pattern did receive ; When , upon Sinai's Mount , the Law was giv'n , And wrote by the immediate Hand of Heav'n . In this Enigma Metaphors there be , Which unto Letters generally agree ; But that ...
... Grounds believe , That MOSES the firft Pattern did receive ; When , upon Sinai's Mount , the Law was giv'n , And wrote by the immediate Hand of Heav'n . In this Enigma Metaphors there be , Which unto Letters generally agree ; But that ...
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... Ground , A Stone of Shape and Size uncommon found Which , having with a curious Pleasure view'd , Aftrong Defire , to measure it , enfu'd : This by the Judgment of an Artist done , Its Form was found to be an upright Cone ; The flanting ...
... Ground , A Stone of Shape and Size uncommon found Which , having with a curious Pleasure view'd , Aftrong Defire , to measure it , enfu'd : This by the Judgment of an Artist done , Its Form was found to be an upright Cone ; The flanting ...
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... Ground , The filent Horror all around , Have tempted Sorrow from her Cave ; And now the hovers o'er the Grave : Now finks our Hearts , impearls our Eyes , And bids a gen'ral Groan arife ; Exclaims that Man was doom'd to mourn , And fits ...
... Ground , The filent Horror all around , Have tempted Sorrow from her Cave ; And now the hovers o'er the Grave : Now finks our Hearts , impearls our Eyes , And bids a gen'ral Groan arife ; Exclaims that Man was doom'd to mourn , And fits ...
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Página 4 - ... As a blind man has no idea of colours, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things. He is utterly void of all body and bodily figure, and can therefore neither be seen nor heard nor touched ; nor ought He to be worshipped under the representation of any corporeal thing. We have ideas of His attributes, but what the real substance of anything is, we know not.
Página 3 - He is all similar, all eye, all ear, all brain, all arm, all power to perceive, to understand, and to act ; but in a manner not at all human, in a manner not at all corporeal, in a manner utterly unknown to us.
Página 25 - And thou, dost thou disdain to yield thy breath, Whose very life is little more than death ? More than one half by lazy sleep possest ; And when awake, thy soul but nods at best, 265 Day-dreams and sickly thoughts revolving in thy breast, Eternal troubles haunt thy.
Página 7 - ... the squares of the periodic times are as the cubes of the distances from the common centre, the centripetal forces will be inversely as the squares of the distances.
Página 1 - And if the fixed stars are the centres of other like systems, these, being formed by the like wise counsel, must be all subject to the dominion of One...
Página 2 - And from his true dominion it follows, that the true God is a living, intelligent, and powerful Being; and from his other perfections, that he is supreme or most perfect He is eternal and infinite, omnipotent and omniscient; that is, his duration reaches from eternity to eternity, his presence from infinity to infinity ; he governs all things, and knows all things that are or can be done.
Página 4 - But by way of allegory, God is said to see, to speak, to laugh, to love, to hate, to desire, to give, to receive, to rejoice, to be angry, to fight, to frame, to work, to build; for all our notions of God are taken from the ways of mankind by a certain similitude, which, though not perfect, has some likeness however. And thus much concerning God: to discourse of whom from the appearances of things does certainly belong to Natural Philosophy.
Página 9 - Therefore we may now more nearly behold the beauties of Nature, and entertain ourselves with the delightful contemplation; and, which is the best and most valuable fruit of philosophy, be thence incited the more profoundly to reverence and adore the great Maker and Lord of all.
Página 6 - And therefore we take the proper question to be, not who invented this or that method, but who was the first inventor of the method. And we believe that those who have reputed Mr. Leibnitz the first inventor knew little or nothing of his correspondence with Mr.
Página 9 - Alphonso were now alive he would not complain for want of the graces either of simplicity or of harmony in it. Therefore we may now more nearly behold the beauties of Nature and entertain ourselves...